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GBC Solution Providers
Green Building Calculator & Green Retrofit Calculator both need product data and cost data to be autonomous and proactively provide data for users to choose from to populate calculations.
Solution providers include: manufacturers, remanufacturers, suppliers, resuppliers, installers and applicators
Manufacturers
can provide any recent 3rd party independently verified information:
- Product Identification, references, names
- Accessories Identification, references, names
- Systems Identification, references, names
- Physical data
- Technical data
- Test evidence or assessments
- Accreditations
- Accolades awards
- Endorsements
- Green, Health, Technical or Social Labels
- Chain of custody evidence
- Life Cycle Assessment & Environmental Product Declaration (Peer reviewed and published)
- Life Cycle Costings
- Carbon Data
- Building Information Management BIM Files
can provide their own information:
- Manufacturer’s recommended prices
- Recipe or specifiable mixes
- Specification templates
- Materials Passport template
- Method Statement template
- Facilities Management maintenance specification
- End of life options
- Technical & Promotional literature
- Contact details: manufacturer and representatives
- Distribution Suppliers Lists
- Approved or trained installers or applicator lists
- Website address
- Direct or via supply chain partners
- Delivery package quantities
- Capacity of delivery vehicles
Suppliers
- Can also provide any of the items on manufacturer’s list above
- Contact details
- Stock levels and restocking time periods
- Special order time periods
- Rates for products, accessories, systems
- Delivery pallet product volumes,
- Unsplit package sizes, quantities
- Delivery prices for: 1m2, 10m2, 100m2, 1,000m2, 10,000m2
- Delivery prices for: 1m3, 10m3, 100m3, 1,000m3, 10,000m3
- Prices for: Unsplit package sizes
- Prices for deliveries
- Capacity of delivery vehicles
- Approved or trained Installers or applicators lists
- Branch addresses
Approved or trained Installers & Applicators
- List of manufacturers and product or systems approved or trained to install or apply
- Address location(s) for ‘local applications’
- Geographical areas economically served
- Supply, Supply and Install or Install rates:
- Prices for: 1m2, 10m2, 100m2, 1,000m2, 10,000m2
- Prices for: 1m3, 10m3, 100m3, 1,000m3, 10,000m3
- Prices for: Unsplit package sizes
- Installation rates: m2/day or m3/day with current work force or teams
- Transport impacts: vehicle emissions rates
Collecting data
- In order to feed GBC calculators we collect data in advance and include them:
- Green Building Product Data Collection
- Green Building Price Book
- Green Building Readymade Elemental Assemblies
- Supporting letters
![GBPDC Green Building Product Data Collection Logo](https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Slide326-e1647194539291.png)
![Green Building Price Book Logo](https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Slide324-e1647194678811.png)
![Green Building Readymade Elemental Assemblies Logo PNG](https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GBREA-Logo.png)
Using collected data
- We are collecting data for a number of purposes
- We create look-up-table to be interrogated by and feed data into cells of:
- Green Building Calculator
- Green Retrofit Calculator
- Firstplanit Platform
![GBE Green Building Calculator Logotype Light PNG](https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GBE-Green-Building-Calculator-Logotype-1024x347.png)
![Green Building Calculator GRC Logo](https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GRC-Logo-URL-1024x354.png)
Exporting data
- The outputs of GBC calculators will include:
- U values
- In use energy
- In use carbon
- Embodied Energy
- Embodied Carbon (Sequestered and total carbon)
![Green Retrofit Calculator GRC Summary Sheet Upper V1 010323 showing: Rows left: Building Elements, U values, Temperature differences, Watts of energy, Areas, % Area v % heat loss; Scenarios: Existing+previous interventions, Proposal 1, Proposal 2](https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GRC-SummarySheetUpper-V1-010323-1024x351.png)
![Green Retrofit Calculator (GRC) Left: Total heat loss, In use energy, In use carbon dioxide, Hours of use, years of service, In-use running costs, embodied energy, embodied carbon, sequestered carbon, total carbon (for each element of the building in columns) Right: results of Scenarios: Existing+previous interventions, Proposal 1, Proposal 2](https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GRC-SummarySheetLower-V1-010323-1024x537.png)
Elemental demands, Heat loss, In use energy, carbon and costs, Embodied energy to Sequestered carbon
- Others to follow:
- Green Building Robust Specification
- Green Building Materials Passport
- Green Building Method Statement
- Green Building FM Maintenance Specification
![Green Building Specification Logo](https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Slide325-e1647194569408.png)
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